3: Bayesian reasoning and avoiding diagnostic errors
Patients with acute appendicitis (100) Patients without acute appendicitis (100) Right lower quadrant pain 80 10 No right lower quadrant pain 20 90 Sensitivity = 80/100 Specificity = 90/100 We…
1: A man with iron deficiency
Case 1 A man with iron deficiency Jeff is a 53-year-old man who returned from a two-week holiday visiting family in Kenya with symptoms of a febrile illness. He had…
1: The legal structure of negligence
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> Section 1: The legal structure of negligence A few words about error If our aim is to reduce the number of clinical errors, then we must explain what we…
4: A potpourri of advice on avoiding errors
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> Section 4: A potpourri of advice on avoiding errors We have discussed what is involved in the diagnostic process and where the errors occur. We have discussed systematic…
2: Causes of diagnostic errors in general practice and how they can be avoided
Initiation of the diagnosis The diagnosis may suggest itself as a ‘spot diagnosis’ as the patient walks through the door – Parkinson’s, depression. The patient may have already ‘self labelled’…
